With funding from two international banks, Transportadora de Energía de Centroamérica will develop the Transmission Expansion Plan 1-2009.

"...As soon as the Expansion Transmission Plan (ETP) is finished, more than 30 power plants will be able to connect to the new energy transport system, contributing to the diversification of the energy network and reducing rates by an estimated 25%, according to the authorities in Guatemala's electricity sector. "

The letter of credit issued by Citi to Globeleq Mesoamerica Energy is for the import of 25 turbines for the 50MW wind farm Orosi, to be built in Guanacaste.

The Spanish company Gamesa is the beneficiary of the letter of credit for the import and installation of 25 turbines in the wind farm being developed by Globeleq Mesoamerica Energy in the area of Quebrada Grande, near Liberia, Guanacaste.

The Instituto Nacional de Electrificación is putting out to tender the construction of a 230 K transmission line, 2do. Circuito Aguacapa - La Vega 2.

The project includes the supply, design, transportation, stringing of conductors, tensioning, change the existing guard wire for OPGW cable, testing and commissioning of the stretch of the second circufrom structures 62 through 72, which has a length of about 4 km.

A new wind farm and the expansion of the International Airport of El Salvador, are the first two projects to be conducted under this system.

"Today (yesterday) I called a meeting with the president of CEPA (Autonomous Executive Port Commission) and CEL (Executive Hydroelectric Commission of the Lempa River) to immediately structure the first two projects: the expansion of the international airport and the wind project which the CEL is working with," said Alexander Segovia, Technical Secretary of the Presidency.

The directors of the Costa Rican state run entity RECOPE say that "there are already a number of studies which prove profitability," but as they can not produce them, they have announced that universities will be hired to do so.

Added to the $50 million that has already been spent on the project, will be these extra costs for more technical studies, and the recruitment of "national universities who will delve deeper, from academia, into the information which international consultants have already verified and approved."

The limited information presented by the state run refinery RECOPE shows that the Costa Rican government will bear the entire risk of the $1.5 billion project.

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It is still not known how much the new refinery will cost, but the head of Economic and Financial Studies unit at Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo (RECOPE), said: "The latest figure is around the $1.5 billion mark."

Panama's Empresa de Transmisión Eléctrica S.A. is putting out to tender the design, supply and construction and financing of the third transmission line passing through Veladero - Llano Sanchez - Chorrera - Panama.

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